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Importance makes faces grave; work makes them lean; gazing at mysteries gives them a sober cast. At Cornell University, Ithaca, a group of men gathered. Their faces were grave, lean, sober; they were the members of the American Chemical Society, assembled for their 68th Annual Convention. Two qualities they all had in common. One was a profound concern with the wonders that beset men's comings and goings, traffics and discoveries, on the earth. The other was renown. They deliberated, debated, uttered paragraphs of chemical formulae that were, when understood, criticism, gasconade and prophecy. Sometimes the summer lightning...
Faces grave, lean, sober...
...because his fragile flower is getting her evening's fodder at the expense of two elderly unknowns. By the end of the scene everybody has strayed into everybody's else private dining room and there is a great deal of talk about going to Turkish baths to sober up in time to go up to Greenwich and get married...
...larrupped by Dexter Cummings in the Intercollegiate Final (TIME, July 7) Taft larrupped Mapes. Women. The long tiled porch of Shenecossett Country Club, at New London, Conn., was all a-titter and aflutter with 175 women, flocked thither for one of the season's larger invitation tournaments. Sober and serious, young Glenna Collett...
Wandering into the main dining room of the Ritz-Carlton Hotel of an evening you may find him. There he is−tall, sober, the perfect bachelor, who has attained years of discretion. Like a gracious prince−for he is a man of distinction−he frequents this semi-public haunt, where ever and again appear the potentates with whom he may speak on terms of equality...